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Hi Shawn. I just recently found your videos online, and I love the style to your teaching. It hits home to me a lot more than some of the other very technical instructors online. I have been playing consistently (roughly 20 rounds a year) for a little over 3 years now, and currently sit around a 20 handicap. I am very much interested in more consistent contact and in increasing my distance. I’ve gone through all your introductory beginner videos, and I just came to the drills section. This morning, I was working on the feet together and the one leg drill. I am 47yrs old, 6’00, 195lbs, and fairly athletic. No matter how hard I tried, I could not hit the ball further than 156 yards with my 7 iron. And, that was hit center of the face, with as much velocity as I could muster. I’m obviously not doing something fundamentally right. With my driver, I struggle to hit the ball over 230 yards. Granted, with the driver I very much struggle to hit center of the clubface a lot, but still … there must be something with my swing that lacks that “whipping” action at contact. Are there any drills you can point me to that will help me create more clubhead speed? Thanks very much for any input you may have!
Hey Dan! Distance comes from the quality of the throw or whipping action of the sword; there could be a few small things you do that are short circuiting the action.
1-you need a grip that will do a solid job of compressing and releasing-see the grip videos of course and the first video of the “consistency series”
2-you need to know how to throw the club well-see “throwing the club” and “club speed” videos on premium
3-you need a full backswing-no resistance-full turn and a solid release action-see “lead hand release” (does both) and “trail hand release” and “release fine tuning”
4-lastly; so many try too hard to keep the level in the swing and that is very detrimental to the speed and flow; if you have a solid task, (see task trumps everything) then things will fall into place-see “pumping up the swing” and “open the machine on course”
Let me know how things go in a couple weeks!
Thanks very much! I will definitely work through those videos on the range and get back to you. It’s amazing how much distance you and your students get without ( what looks like ) much effort at all! Meanwhile, I’m using everything I got, with inconsistent and weak results!
Hi Shawn, I am struggling with a consistent driver so I started Feet Together and One Legged training yesterday. Feet Together straightened out my issues and One Legged felt really effortless with excellent shot shape (slight draw) and distance. So that is all good. I tried normal stance afterwards but still found issues tugging and pulling shots left. I feel like I should take the one legged stance to the course for consistency and solid distance. I might look a little strange to my buddies but the results should hopefully be worth it. Should I continue to try and go to normal stance ? Or is staying with an effortless one legged drive ok.
P.S. I’ve had similar results with the 3 wood, hybrids and long irons. One Legged is king for me at the moment.
Ok, question;
What was your focus over the ball just before you swung when you hit it fat??
Next you want to perfect your walking drill; see the video in premium with this title and see how you do with it!
Shawn
I,m with Lynn. I can hit the ball great on one leg, but adding the other leg makes for weaker shots and more inconsistency. Do we have the feeling that Our weight is staying on the inside of the left foot?
I just answered Lynn, she slipped through the cracks!
Have a look at the answer below; plus look at the off season training videos with the ones that relate to walking and throwing;
Here is the focus sequence that needs to be internalised BTW, going into the book!
1-pick an “end target” or a place you want to have the ball end up
2-pick a flight plan that fits your ability to get the ball there; please INCLUDE THE HEIGHT OF THE SHOT or peak trajectory before it falls back down towards the end target.
3-find an intermediate point that will set you up into that picture-so that when you let the weight of the club release you to the target, you can predict that the ball position, the distance to the ball, the posture, and the grip-club face relationship will fit the flight when you let the club track itself into the direction you want to start the ball.
Predictions video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieQF5GjxzFs
4-set up done? Prediction of shot done? It is now OUT of YOUR CONTROL, just give control to gravity and let the weight of the ACU release itself in the direction you want to start the ball. Look for the feel of that low effort and nice whipping velocity that unleashes that ball into that flight with freedom and abandon!
5-DID YOU LET IT? DID you stay with the feel of that release to that direction? Or did you get distracted by “making sure” of a position or something else making noise around you?
If you stayed with it: how was the direction? how was the contact? How was the balance? How was the strain level?
If you did not stay with it, something short circuited you and you were trying to do something else; what was that you were trying? What were your concerns?
6-The most important stat in golf is how many times (there are average 36 full swings on the golf course) were you able to stay with your shot all the way to the finish? Can You CONFIRM WITHOUT A DOUBT THAT YOU felt the release of the club in the direction you wanted to start the ball?
Hello Shawn. First I want to thank you for your generosity. By that I mean that after my first year with you I was surprised to find that the Wisdom in Golf 1.0 series had been added to my account. The series has helped me a lot. Thank you.
So, I have struggled greatly with the driver, really struggled. Awesome fades. When I was younger I swear my driver shots would go 200 yards down range and 200 yards into the woods. I did a lot heavy weights back then. 🙂 Seriously though. With your system I have gotten rid of the slice for the most part. Recently, I purchased a new driver and have been pleasantly surprised that I am hitting many very good shots with the driver that carry 250 yards with a good roll out. So to me 10 to 20 yards roll out puts me in very good shape as long as it is in on the short grass. Anyway, what does this have to do with the one-leg-drill? Today I hit a bucket of balls. I hit several nice 7 irons and then switched off to the driver (it was yelling at me) and after 6 or 8 good drives I went back to the 7 iron and proceeded to hit fat shots. Now at my age (almost 64) that is not a pleasant experience when you hit one after the other (the earth don’t move so good). OK. The one-leg-drill – when I hit balls from the one-leg-drill, I hit beautiful golf shots that go a really long ways and look so good in the air and most of the time have a slight draw. Then when I go back to two legs, I hit fat. Question – how do I transition from the on-leg to the two-leg and hit that same lovely draw with lots of distance? Sorry it took so long to get to it.:)